Anime Semantics #26: How can you subvert the Chosen One trope? (The excess misuse of the term "Chosen one")

exactly, the title is given, not taken. Well said.

You have to be chosen to walk the path, not choose the path. Aang never chose to be the Avatar, in fact he ran from it, but since Book 1 his path was set by Roku himself that he had to master the elements by the end of summer to fight one of the most dangerous benders on the planet during a cosmic event where their god given power would be boosted ten fold.

Aang didn't set out to do that in episode 1, he was aimless.

In fact his path wasn't even stablished until the Solstice Episodes after he met Heibai. Up til then it was Aang just getting used to being the Avatar.

Aang was chosen.

Deku was lucky.

He wasn't chosen by U.A., Deku chose U.A.

The path of the Hero didn't choose Deku, he chose it because of All Might. Which is fine, but that's not a chosen one.

All Might didn't choose Deku by virtue of Deku actually proving anything, Deku was available & rushed into danger headfirst. And being reckless meant he was worthy.

In all respects, Melissa was a leagues better choice but she was a retcon/ later addition so we have to overlook that little gap that Yagi overlooked a genius intellect quirkless for some no talent having NPC he didn't even know.

He didn't even have Inko's permission to train the kid either, ppl forget that, Yagi (some strange man she didn't know) had direct isolated access to her son without her consent or knowledge lmfao.

Deku in his own story is put last after a very early point, he wasn't even treated as chosen or unique by Horikoshi himself, Izuku was just a face among many who are all equally special, valid & visible, and amazeballs.

Everyone is the main character. "You are the protagonist"

My Hero Academia was EVERYONE's story while pretending to be about Deku.

Stellar Blade is...Actually Pretty Good ("I don't play video games to play dress up with a Korean Barbie doll")

("I don't play video games to play dress up with a Korean Barbie doll")

- Synthetic Man (based mode)

good work on his part for going in depth on the gameplay section vs the other crap, this is basically like a poor mans Nier: Automata. Tho the enemy designs in Stellar Blade are better.. I personally prefer organic enemy to robots 

 Those special moves have pretty colors, i'll give it that much i guess, Again the demon aesthetic for the boss designs are pretty cool, most of this thing just looks cheap.

And yeah, there's no exaggeration to the body types, she just looks like a slender average toothpick with no jawline, looks so plastic. the ppl going gaga for Eve’s rump  here likely have little life experience to tell the difference between a butt and actual cake. 

  Game's whole cultural stake is carried by the purdy pixels gimmick, Create-A Sim dressup mode, more like "Beta Blade".

Which is why this isn't an answer to wokeness but actually will enable it. Because this isn't a good look. This  is the other side of the woke coin, equally cringe.

 Games like this  don't age well because the presentation is transparent & oozes desperation, a little bit of a creepy factor. It defeats itself because it communicates to the mainstream that for women to be pretty or appealing women have to be objectified and the fact that that is the main reason why this got any attention vs the ACTUAL GAME- is why the mainstream machine will go even harder. 

It’s not like the game presented the characters respectfully & showed the west how it’s done WITHOUT the sexploitation, no it just tapped into a different degree of second hand embarrassment and ppl actually think this is a step in the right direction.

 Elizabeth Comstock is pretty, smart,  interesting arc & story, powerful as sh^t , sassy, pretty hot in the DLC when she pulls the femme fatale style--

 but you can’t dress her up in stripper outfits & the in-game camera doesn’t pan on her rear when she does a special attack. (imagine my disappointment)

The difference here is respectful execution vs playing Barbie with digital waifu’s, gameplay be damned, the dressup is the real reason for the majority  following for this game.

(Reminds me of the shortlived buzz surrounding Quiet from MGSV, or that Amazon Vampire from RE8 that nobody talks about anymore)

 And the reason for that is dressing them up & down is a mechanic of control, if they put a Sims 3 body modifier in the mix, you’d get 5x the following for this game. It's not about the actual game, it's about ppl (mainly boys) playing with dolls.

 That's why this isn't going to age well. It’s not raising a bar, nor is it saying anything, nor is it doing anything new or innovative. It’s part of the problem.

But that’s only if you try to insert this in the fabled “culture war”, if you don’t do that? It’s just a poor man’s nier automata, it’s trashy. 

 Exactly 20:12 Bro just said the loud part even louder.

Twitter Doesn't Like My Zelda Video...

14:39 The "just drawings" deflections has never been a good argument or reasoning. It's exactly that, deflection, excuses. There's a big difference between how Codename Kids Next Door depicts children and how Japans Anime AND MANGA depicts kids on mass. I'm not even talking about the intentionally dark stories like "Bokurano" or "Now and Then, Here and There" but the loli fetishy stuff. I like Mitsudomoe for example, it's hilarious, yet that show really needed to be toned down in a lot of areas. It gets very very fresh with those little kid characters and out of line with how certain adult characters acted around those kids. *But thats normal for that country then they wonder why they have so many assault cases against women and children in a country with a mega industry that casually dehumanizes women and children. Coincidence i'm sure. Or why their birthrates are tanking when they enable young men to remain mentally suspended boys salivating over jailbait* Loli Is attachment to fetishizing innocence, it's less about the girls and more about the vulnerability, the infantilism. Innocence. That's the whole appeal, the innocence, a ripe pure prospect. Purity. Cute. Women can hurt you, a loli pleases by just being cute. A glorified pet. It's not the drawing entirely, it's not the fiction, it's the implication of it and WHY one gravitates to it in the first place. Why people clamor around it as with any fetishism. It's not always what, but usually why, when, and how. WHY. Not why a 13 yr old is into it (you're afforded ignoramus exception points as a teenager), but why a 19-39+ year old is still latched onto it. There are some things you don't entertain or play with, that's part of growing the hell up, letting childish things go--- Knowing when not to do something. "it's just a drawing" is not the appropriate response, it's not even relevant, it just enables. The response is "where is that coming from?" in the head of the artist. "Why was that the best they had to offer to the rest of the species?" Enough excuses, we need more dissection & accountability. And then national IQ points will stop tanking faster the birthrates. Accountability mitigates bigger social issues from even happening when you stop pretending the little things don't matter

My Hero Academia Chapter ….431- The aromantic/sterilized bro handshake.

 

Not gonna say everything I want to say now, imma just let the meme speak for itself.

Ghost Rider - Final Vengeance #1-6 (TL;DR "A whole lotta nothing")

 

Shame about Parker, and it's really a waste how he didn't even make a dent in the Marvel landscape when he had the power. Someone on #1's comments mentioned him pulling up on Strange or the Avengers or he should do that, i was actually hoping for that but he didn't even do 1% of that.

His ambitions were so small, he didn't even realize the scope of Zarathos himself, what exactly he was capable of. Truly a loser, had all that might, no respect, even his ex-wife pulled away, tragic.

Story itself was a waste of time, especially 90% of Issue 1 wasted on stupid contrived side plots that didn't matter, and the one's the writer gave the most panels to were the LEAST interesting of the prospects, so time was wasted on mediocrity instead of giving the reader the best possibilities to stew on. An expected end, nothing was really was lost (Robbins didn't really do anything when you think about it) or much was gained beyond Z & Blaze are on the same page. Back in the same place.

Not recommended for a serious read but it's good to skim through.

Asian game devs have already won.. (They didn't win shit)

another virgin simulator.

Civilization is doomed, not because of the game itself (this isn't the first gf sim to ever exist), but what gave rise to this perpetual arrested development culture. A Generation of little boys who don't want to risk anything but want max reward of a woman's body & time anyway. culture radicalized girls thus ruined ladies while waging war on men, that's part of the issue here, but thats not how life works bucks, you can't risk NOTHING and gain everything. No amount of pixels is going to replace that, and if what you want isn't a replacement but a numbing effect, you're then part of the problem, just an addict with no track marks nor a legacy to speak of. When yer in a box, your legacy is a gallery of how little you accomplished.

Hence why you're living it now through synthetic parody and virtual bastardization because of zero life skill to actually gain anything for yourself. So you need 2-7 guys to do the work for you to make a Simulator to close the gap of what you're incapable of cultivating in the real world where shit matters. See if these devs cared? They'd get up in your face and tell you go live. But they don't, this is about them making their shortcoming a banking opportunity, and ngl? It's brilliant, make thousands of abandoned hearts the suckers & you get rich. That's how Romance Novel writers do it to women. It's just wanting pet women thats there for one reason only, hence essentially wanting a pet and not a partner. Which is what disqualifies one from even being desirable. Hence lonely, hence running the The Matrix, it's a paradox of failure. *It's pathetic, and I RARELY use the "pathetic" card but my god this is pure garbage.* All the chics are autistic or mentally 5 years old, just how a boy likes them. Malleable, easy to control. *Like really think about what you're looking at, none of these characters or avatars are given any nuance or real personality. And I bet you none of these chics actually will make you work for it- hence the escapism. Get something for nothing. LAZY.*

Does escapism HAVE TO entail that women are reduced to 1 Brain cell having amoebas that are essentially escorts? that's really what this is, an escort sim for shut-in's. This is ridiculous, fetishists are the underground symptom of the decline of parenting, this is the blatant 'in your face' example of the decline of men. And all you have to do is just look at the execution of the product AND LOOK AT THE CREATORS making it. Because a Gf sims aren't a new thing, so this existing isn't indicative of anything on it's own, it's the brazen nature of it. The desperation oozing from it, because boys & men were all in all left behind and abandoned by both the party and women because the party claims women & girls (because they're easier to manipulate politically) and leaves boys & men to rot because they're the one's that will fight the system first and the hardest. This is what happens.

1:04 "YEP.", exactly NUFF SAID, thats who the masterminds are, real chads. Lmfao, sad. Society failed women by making them think they're the full package. And failed men by almost rendering them extinct. And the result is a mass of Boyisms, retreating 24/7, apathy, cowardice, laziness. Shinji Ikari syndrome. Guarantee you plenty of people here watched Neon genesis & got mesmerized by the mechs and missed the point of what Shinji represented These devs don't care about their audience, they care about faux security in projecting their ineptitudes and failures and getting rewarded for making their insecurities everyone's business. That's what this is about, reinforcement, not supporting lonely men. It's about them, not the people buying the product. The same exact mentality as a fetishist or a woke writer, I kid you not. It's the same principle. But do what you gotta do kid.

The problem began 30+ years ago while people could afford to ignore it, not when this game was made.

The solution is what It's always been, stop propping up women & using men as the pillars. Stop leaving boys behind, cultivating no men, waging war ON Masculinity, then be surprised why boys remain boys forever.

You can't have it both ways, because this is what you get. If men are demoralized from using their ingenuity to claim a real woman in a healthy way, they're going to put that god given creativity elsewhere. It's inevitable, the era created this, not men, not women, the collective society that claimed women & left men to wriggle on their backs.

You can NOT do that for generations, you can divide the two sides, and abuse boys or girls on end and expect success, expect birthrate stability, expect prosperity while having a boot on the throat of masculinity, enablign fetishism, or digital waifu addict culture, radicalizing the female ego or erasing what a woman even is.

Nothing short of psychotic if you think you can do that and still get a TYPE-II Civilization, let alone help the birthrates or more importantly heal the relations.

You're insane, you can NOT have both.

Canadian town fined $10k for refusing to celebrate Pride Month

That's how a Mafia makes an example of people when they don't bend over or how a cult disciplines it's subjects when they don't pay tribute to Bael or whatever the idol is, here's a fine or we'll break ya thumbs or make ya life a mess. If you do not obey, there will be complication. If you do not fill up offering plate, you are a sinner. That's how a gang works. Either kneel for the predominant party, or be disciplined as if in a third world country. Freedom is an aesthetic. It never belonged to you. Following the law is not enough, totalitarianism is the way. A disparaged people being able to live without fear of harm, having a month, protected class, all that is not enough. You must Praise & worship when you're supposed to and everything will be fine. Because that's how tolerance works. Because if Christianity did that (again), that would be oppression, so everyone agrees religion shouldn't be everyone's business, but A COUNTRY ON MASS has a gun barrel to their head to kneel & worship June for one secular, personal reason that literally has nothing to do with the other 99% majority of the human race. So a religion can't do it, but this minority can bully everyone else. Don't bake us a cake? Well, say bye bye to your small business. Feed your kids old newspapers, we don't care. Because that's definitely not a Mafia, obey or expire. This is what happens when you give them an inch, then they take everything else, more and more and more and more. Invade more of everything you see, wanting more access to your kids, corruption. To where you minding your business, IS NOT ENOUGH. This is exactly how a virus operates, it will not stop until the body as a whole declines & gives out. Viruses don't slow down when it gets it's due and then co-exists with the other microorganisms in peace, that's not how it works. This is why people on mass need to learn how to say "no" again, but now you're beyond the point where you can even do that. All you can do is resist, when 10 years ago you had the power to shut this down on lock. Now here we are. For privileged civilization, It always escalates in a phase of decline, every time. Learn how to say no.

The Depravity of r/niceguys *reupload

 

there's nothing awesome about calling an npc nobody a "goddess", ladies get that unearned reinforcement from society anyway, why make it worse to get that title, her box better cure 5 stage infections or something To be real, if women could birth children without seed, asexually, on command, at any time they wanted & could rid of the 1st trimester conception on command WITHOUT clinics but just natural internal safe termination. Complete physiological control over birth???

Ie. Actual creators of life, which they are NOT IRL. OK FINE that's worth calling em goddesses if they could do that, that would be awesome because that is indeed a godlike capability.

If they built all the cities while men sat comfy in the offices, if they invented majority of mankind's advancements, if they were the ones doing all the dangerous jobs, that's worth calling them goddesses but that's not women, women aren't doing that.

Not in this timeline. They're in fact getting carried by men in that regard. So what are they actually doing that's worth all this propping up?

*Honoring your woman because she specifically earned that position is one thing, but even then the energy BETTER go both ways.

This paganism-esque goddess crap is not the energy of Men with a capital "M", thats on some little boy mentality, lack of experience

But it is funny tho, that picture of that spongebob chic looking like: "As you should" face lol

A lady as an average case achieves little to nothing in life but gets called a god because she was born the right sex just to be replaced by a younger woman when she reaches ripeness, thus she was a goddess of no one and nothing.

Frfr Nice guys aren't helping. They finish last not because they're nice, Nice guys finish last because Nice guys don't put themselves first.

If you don't respect yourself, she's not gonna respect you. Facts.

Making It Plain To Konkret Comics Colorists About Isis' Skintone (Shawn's defense for bashing a book because the main heroine didn't date a black man))

I get it, Shawn's dissent of Luna is both aesthetic but more so substance, fine.

And Isis in practice is more pro-black, easily a better character from how he described; so the whole core of this counter-argument is she's pro black & there's lore behind her look despite her looking more latina than an actual traditional black woman of healthy darker complexion which would be better. *Yet technically still she's not a BW by our standards nor entirely human, so she's an outsider assimilating someone else's fight,* playing savior with good intentions essentially but she's not white so she gets to be an honorary black woman despite having no stake in the struggle, so she's an adoptee to the culture, an alien; Not a daughter of the community being a solution for the community. Which is an overtone in itself. W_hich i personally don't have an issue with, but the factor here is consistency to the agenda which Shawn harps on often with rhetoric like insinuating people self-hate or whatnot if their creative liberties are not how he likes them to be._

The only difference between her and luna really on a basic visual level is the hair. Because the only reason why these Konkret cats spoke on Isis is reactionary to what was said about their work to begin with. They didn't initiate this. *All this really says is that going-in on people's work not cause of merit but because of creative decisions/a character doesn't look black enough by hair (which is hypocritical because reddish hue isn't traditional either regardless of why) or dates who you want them to is just unnecessary no matter who's doing the BBQing. Case and Period.* Because naturally, I repeat- NATURALLY people are going to hold the other accountable by the same token of criticism they receive especially if it's inflammatory & over aesthetic instead of execution, and it's only fair, that goes for any topic. And no BW do not fear losing BM they push away or walk away from to begin with because of lack of humility & house training, which is not their fault, thats a parenting skill issue. Same goes for the brothas who do the same to the ladies. *They don't trust BM because the dysfunctional BM they have as options were raised by dysfunctional BW, plain and simple.*

The system has it's hand in sabotaging the community no doubt, regardless it doesn't make anyone commit to bad personal life decisions.

Blaming "supremacy" is just not holding BW accountable which is why women will always be the weaklink (of any race) if they're constantly told they're victims, and when you're forever a victim, the less agency you have, the less desire you feel to go out of your way to evolve or fix anything.

That's the curse of the black community. If you are victim 24/7, then the burden of evolution is on the oppressor not you, so you never change, but when things don't get better because YOU don't change, then you also blame that on the boogeyman. A Paradox of decline and failure.

like whether or not you give a dysfunctional man an heir anyway despite every reason not to, that's not on white supremacy, that's on her, that's on them. Gotta stop using that "white supremacy" term as a scapegoat when all people have to do is just be responsible and nut up & do better. And WANT their own community to succeed.

Because YES, light or dark the system sees a black person but more importantly better wake up and understand the system has it's biases but it doesn't about color that much, masses are the masses, if a nuke drops right now, it's not going to discriminate between whites and blacks, nuclear warheads don't care about your color bruv. I guarantee you that.

Manga Overview #8e: My Hero Academia (Volumes 28-41)

Mirko had more plot armor than Christ himself. And only had a stake in the fandom because she was a dark skin ( But NOT too dark to where her complexion clashes with preconceived notions of attractiveness, so she’s not black but light tan) animal freak fetish, Midnight left the chat, here comes the new flavor.

Nice one kohei

 

remember this throwback: 

Remember this shit? Course you don’t, this article was made during Season 2′s no stakes festival. 

Ochako broke a female lead curse because she got ONE episode with some focus, where she lost the match against Bakugou anyway, she never got to help fight Stain and was overlooked thereon post Final Exams- 

despite her motivations involving her parents, the biggest character moment she had in Season 3 was shelving her feelings for Deku. She wasn’t involved in the Kamino arc situation

Groundbreaking.